how to install NetBSD/landisk

[jcarnat]

Hello,

I'm looking at buying a simple NAS thing and am interested in replacing
the emebeded Linux but NetBSD. I probably would go for the Plextor because
it's available in France.

What is the procedure to boot NetBSD on such devices ?

TIA,
  Jo

[Valeriy E. Ushakov]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 23:39:41 +0100, Joel CARNAT wrote:

> I'm looking at buying a simple NAS thing and am interested in replacing
> the emebeded Linux but NetBSD. I probably would go for the Plextor because
> it's available in France.
>
> What is the procedure to boot NetBSD on such devices ?

I have USL-5P (with the system on the CF card and no built-in
storage).  I've prepared the CF on i386 machine and put it in place of
the stock CF with Linux.

Prepared means:

. fdisk
. disklabel
. newfs
. untar sets
. installboot
. tweak few files in /etc (fstab, rc.conf)

You will also need to make a serail console cable:

    http://www.mizore.jp/wiki/index.php?LANDISK%2Fserial-console

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[Izumi Tsutsui]

uwe@... wrote:

> I have USL-5P (with the system on the CF card and no built-in
> storage).  I've prepared the CF on i386 machine and put it in place of
> the stock CF with Linux.

Today I've tried to install NetBSD/landisk to
the I-O DATA "Lan Tank" (SOTO-HDLWU) NAS box:
http://supertank.iodata.jp/products/sotohdlwu/ (in Japanese)
and it works fine.

> Prepared means:
>
> . fdisk
> . disklabel
> . newfs
> . untar sets
> . installboot
> . tweak few files in /etc (fstab, rc.conf)

There are some more tweaks:
- my Seagate ST380021A ATA disk is not recognized by the firmware ;-(
- maybe we have to install mbr bootloader by
  dd if=/landisk-DESTDIR/usr/mdec/mbr of=/dev/rwdXd bs=512 count=1
  or so
- as usual we have to preserve first 63 sectors for fdisk
- fdisk partition should be marked active by "fdisk -a wdX"
- we have to copy /usr/mdec/boot into root filesystem before installboot
- we also have to create device nodes by
  "mount /dev/wdXa /mnt; cd /mnt/dev; sh MAKEDEV all" etc.

---

SH IPL+g version 0.9, Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `w'.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain conditions; type `l' for details.

2002/09/09 Making.  2003/10/16 I-O DATA NSD NWG Update.
266:133:33 on base clock 22.22MHz and SDRAM 4 burst. ATA boot.

A-Card ATP865 ATA controller found.
PCIC initialization done.
MASTER:48bit LBA mode non support
Disk drive detected: IBM-DTLA-305020 TW2OA60A          YE0YE0E2803
LBA: 02653C20
DiskSize: 20GByte
PIO MODE1
Set Transfer Mode result: 50
A-Card ATP865 ATA controller found.
> b
Set Transfer Mode result: 50
Initialize Device Parameters result: 50
IDLE result: 50

NetBSD MBR boot

NetBSD/landisk ffsv1 Primary Bootstrap

>> NetBSD/landisk Boot, Revision 1.0
>> (tsutsui@mirage, Sun Feb 25 01:08:20 JST 2007)
Press return to boot now, any other key for boot menu
booting hd0a:netbsd - starting in 0
3622924+201004 [213744+205766]=0x40c3bc
Start @ 0x8c001000 [1=0x8c3a6938-0x8c40d3bc]...
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
    2006, 2007
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 4.99.12 (LANTANK) #0: Sun Feb 25 05:37:00 JST 2007
        tsutsui@mirage:/usr/src/sys/arch/landisk/compile/LANTANK
Model: I-O DATA LANDISK
total memory = 65536 KB
avail memory = 58312 KB
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: HITACHI SH4 266.666 MHz PCLOCK 33.333 MHz
cpu0: 8KB/32B direct-mapped Instruction cache.
cpu0: 16KB/32B direct-mapped Data cache.
cpu0: P0, U0, P3 write-through; P1 write-through
cpu0: full-associative 4 ITLB, 64 UTLB entries
cpu0: multiple virtual storage mode, SQ access: kernel, wired 61
shpcic0 at mainbus0: HITACHI SH7751R
pci0 at shpcic0
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled
rtk0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0: Realtek 8139 10/100BaseTX (rev. 0x20)
rtk0: interrupting at irq 5
rtk0: Ethernet address 00:a0:b0:70:c0:76
rlphy0 at rtk0 phy 7: Realtek internal PHY
rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
acardide0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0
acardide0: Acard ATP865-A Ultra133 IDE Controller (rev. 0x07)
acardide0: using irq 6 for native-PCI interrupt
atabus0 at acardide0 channel 0
atabus1 at acardide0 channel 1
ohci0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: NEC USB Host Controller (rev. 0x43)
ohci0: interrupting at irq 7
ohci0: OHCI version 1.0
usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: NEC OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
ohci1 at pci0 dev 2 function 1: NEC USB Host Controller (rev. 0x43)
ohci1: interrupting at irq 8
ohci1: OHCI version 1.0
usb1 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1 at usb1
uhub1: NEC OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ehci0 at pci0 dev 2 function 2: NEC USB Host Controller (rev. 0x04)
ehci0: interrupting at irq 5
ehci0: companion controllers, 3 ports each: ohci0 ohci1
usb2 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub2 at usb2
uhub2: NEC EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 5 ports with 5 removable, self powered
shb0 at mainbus0
scif0 at shb0
scif0: console
rs5c313rtc0 at shb0: RS5C313 real time clock
obio0 at mainbus0
btn0 at obio0 irq 12: USL-5P Button
pwrsw0 at obio0 irq 11: Power Switch
Kernelized RAIDframe activated
wd0 at atabus0 drive 0: <IBM-DTLA-305020>
wd0: 19623 MB, 39870 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 40188960 sectors
boot device: wd0
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
/etc/rc.conf is not configured.  Multiuser boot aborted.
Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
We recommend creating a non-root account and using su(1) for root access.
No entry for terminal type "dumb";
using dumb terminal settings.
#

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Izumi Tsutsui

[Izumi Tsutsui]

I wrote:

> Today I've tried to install NetBSD/landisk to
> the I-O DATA "Lan Tank" (SOTO-HDLWU) NAS box:
> http://supertank.iodata.jp/products/sotohdlwu/ (in Japanese)
> and it works fine.

FYI, on-board 8139C+ works fine with re(4) and hardware cksums:

---
 :
pci0 at shpcic0
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled
re0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0: RealTek 8139C+ 10/100BaseTX
re0: interrupting at irq 5
re0: Ethernet address 00:a0:b0:70:c0:76
re0: using 64 tx descriptors
rlphy0 at re0 phy 0: Realtek internal PHY
rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
 :

# ifconfig re0
re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        capabilities=3f80<TSO4,IP4CSUM_Rx,IP4CSUM_Tx,TCP4CSUM_Rx,TCP4CSUM_Tx,UDP4CSUM_Rx,UDP4CSUM_Tx>
        enabled=3f00<IP4CSUM_Rx,IP4CSUM_Tx,TCP4CSUM_Rx,TCP4CSUM_Tx,UDP4CSUM_Rx,UDP4CSUM_Tx>
        address: 00:a0:b0:70:c0:76
        media: Ethernet autoselect
        status: active
        inet 192.168.20.34 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.20.255
        inet6 fe80::2a0:b0ff:fe70:c076%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
# netstat -ni -I re0
Name  Mtu   Network       Address              Ipkts Ierrs    Opkts Oerrs Colls
re0   1500  <Link>        00:a0:b0:70:c0:76    36702     0    34743     0     0
re0   1500  192.168.20/24 192.168.20.34        36702     0    34743     0     0
re0   1500  fe80::/64     fe80::2a0:b0ff:fe    36702     0    34743     0     0
#

---
Izumi Tsutsui

[jcarnat]

Hi,

thanks for the first replies.
now... where do I find the binary tarball ?

I didn't anything in the places I usually find /i386 and /sparc64 stuff.
I looked for sh3* stuff. Maybe this is a wrong regexp ?

TIA,
        Jo

On Thu, Feb 22 2007 - 23:39, Joel CARNAT wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm looking at buying a simple NAS thing and am interested in replacing
> the emebeded Linux but NetBSD. I probably would go for the Plextor because
> it's available in France.
>
> What is the procedure to boot NetBSD on such devices ?
>
> TIA,
>   Jo
>

[Kristoffer Ericson-2]

Greetings,

Anyone got a name and modelnumber for a Landisk-clone thats available in
europe (sweden)?

Best wishes
Kristoffer

>From: Joel CARNAT <joel@...>
>Reply-To: joel@...
>To: port-sh3@...
>Subject: Re: how to install NetBSD/landisk
>Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:55:49 +0100
>
>Hi,
>
>thanks for the first replies.
>now... where do I find the binary tarball ?
>
>I didn't anything in the places I usually find /i386 and /sparc64 stuff.
>I looked for sh3* stuff. Maybe this is a wrong regexp ?
>
>TIA,
> Jo
>
>On Thu, Feb 22 2007 - 23:39, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm looking at buying a simple NAS thing and am interested in replacing
> > the emebeded Linux but NetBSD. I probably would go for the Plextor
>because
> > it's available in France.
> >
> > What is the procedure to boot NetBSD on such devices ?
> >
> > TIA,
> >   Jo
> >

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[Valeriy E. Ushakov]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 12:53:45 +0000, Kristoffer Ericson wrote:

> Anyone got a name and modelnumber for a Landisk-clone thats available in
> europe (sweden)?

Plextor PX-EH16L, PX-EH25L and PX-EH40L.

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[Valeriy E. Ushakov]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 14:55:49 +0100, Joel CARNAT wrote:

> now... where do I find the binary tarball ?

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/  e.g.
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/200703100002Z/landisk/

Hmm, i think landisk builds were not enabled for NeBSD-4 branch.  I'll
ask releng.  Current is i a bit of turmoil currently, so I wouldn't
recommend it, atm.

Alternatively, just build a landisk distribution yourself.  NetBSD has
very nice cross-compilation support.

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[jcarnat]

> On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 14:55:49 +0100, Joel CARNAT wrote:
>
>> now... where do I find the binary tarball ?
>
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/  e.g.
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/200703100002Z/landisk/
>
> Hmm, i think landisk builds were not enabled for NeBSD-4 branch.  I'll
> ask releng.  Current is i a bit of turmoil currently, so I wouldn't
> recommend it, atm.
>
> Alternatively, just build a landisk distribution yourself.  NetBSD has
> very nice cross-compilation support.
>

OK, I'll do it with build.sh.
I was just not sure were/what to look for.

thanks.

[jcarnat]

Mine is Plextor PX-EH40L.
I couldn't find any of the IO/DATA references outside Japan or America.

PX-EH40L is a model with the OS on the first partition on the disk.

For the moment, I just have opened it and check my backup/restore
procedure. I'm waiting for a serial cable (purchased on ebay) to try a
NetBSD/OpenBSD install on it.

I took a few picture while dismounting it.
http://www.tumfatig.net/grafx/hardware/Plextor/index.html

I'll write a small HTML doc when I will have finished the migration to
NetBSD.

> Greetings,
>
> Anyone got a name and modelnumber for a Landisk-clone thats available in
> europe (sweden)?
>
> Best wishes
> Kristoffer
>
>
>>From: Joel CARNAT <joel@...>
>>Reply-To: joel@...
>>To: port-sh3@...
>>Subject: Re: how to install NetBSD/landisk
>>Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:55:49 +0100
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>thanks for the first replies.
>>now... where do I find the binary tarball ?
>>
>>I didn't anything in the places I usually find /i386 and /sparc64 stuff.
>>I looked for sh3* stuff. Maybe this is a wrong regexp ?
>>
>>TIA,
>> Jo
>>
>>On Thu, Feb 22 2007 - 23:39, Joel CARNAT wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I'm looking at buying a simple NAS thing and am interested in
>> replacing
>> > the emebeded Linux but NetBSD. I probably would go for the Plextor
>>because
>> > it's available in France.
>> >
>> > What is the procedure to boot NetBSD on such devices ?
>> >
>> > TIA,
>> >   Jo
>> >
>
>
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[jcarnat]

build.sh doesn't seem to recognize "landisk" as a '-a' argument.
does it work on -netbsd-4 or should I use some other ARCH ?

TIA,
        Jo

On Mon, Mar 12 2007 - 17:50, Joel CARNAT wrote:

> > On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 14:55:49 +0100, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> >
> >> now... where do I find the binary tarball ?
> >
> > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/  e.g.
> > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/200703100002Z/landisk/
> >
> > Hmm, i think landisk builds were not enabled for NeBSD-4 branch.  I'll
> > ask releng.  Current is i a bit of turmoil currently, so I wouldn't
> > recommend it, atm.
> >
> > Alternatively, just build a landisk distribution yourself.  NetBSD has
> > very nice cross-compilation support.
> >
>
> OK, I'll do it with build.sh.
> I was just not sure were/what to look for.
>
> thanks.
>

[Valeriy E. Ushakov]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 18:59:08 +0100, Joel CARNAT wrote:

> build.sh doesn't seem to recognize "landisk" as a '-a' argument.
> does it work on -netbsd-4 or should I use some other ARCH ?

landisk is MACHINE (-m), not MACHINE_ARCH (-a).  Use

build.sh -m landisk ...


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[jcarnat]

On Mon, Mar 12 2007 - 21:02, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 18:59:08 +0100, Joel CARNAT wrote:
>
> > build.sh doesn't seem to recognize "landisk" as a '-a' argument.
> > does it work on -netbsd-4 or should I use some other ARCH ?
>
> landisk is MACHINE (-m), not MACHINE_ARCH (-a).  Use
>
> build.sh -m landisk ...
>

it's building. thanks!

I got the serial cable this evening so I plugued it on the mainboard.
The thing is I get junk on the output (same as if I had run  `cat
/bin/ls` for example) ; that is unreadable caracters. I tried hitting
ENTER but it doesn't seem to act as if the console got CR/LF.

Anyone knows what this mean ?
Is the serial cable not build correctly ?
Do I use the wrong settings (I use 9600 8-N-1) ?

TIA,
        Jo

[Christos Zoulas-2]

In article <20070312213411.GB1557@...>,
Joel CARNAT  <joel@...> wrote:

>-=-=-=-=-=-
>
>On Mon, Mar 12 2007 - 21:02, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 18:59:08 +0100, Joel CARNAT wrote:
>>
>> > build.sh doesn't seem to recognize "landisk" as a '-a' argument.
>> > does it work on -netbsd-4 or should I use some other ARCH ?
>>
>> landisk is MACHINE (-m), not MACHINE_ARCH (-a).  Use
>>
>> build.sh -m landisk ...
>>
>
>it's building. thanks!
>
>I got the serial cable this evening so I plugued it on the mainboard.
>The thing is I get junk on the output (same as if I had run  `cat
>/bin/ls` for example) ; that is unreadable caracters. I tried hitting
>ENTER but it doesn't seem to act as if the console got CR/LF.
>
>Anyone knows what this mean ?
>Is the serial cable not build correctly ?
>Do I use the wrong settings (I use 9600 8-N-1) ?
>

Try different baud rates? 19.2 or 38.4 perhaps?

christos

[Valeriy E. Ushakov]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 22:34:11 +0100, Joel CARNAT wrote:

> I got the serial cable this evening so I plugued it on the mainboard.
> The thing is I get junk on the output (same as if I had run  `cat
> /bin/ls` for example) ; that is unreadable caracters. I tried hitting
> ENTER but it doesn't seem to act as if the console got CR/LF.
>
> Anyone knows what this mean ?
> Is the serial cable not build correctly ?
> Do I use the wrong settings (I use 9600 8-N-1) ?

Strange.  The following is from powering up my USL-5P.  Serial cable
was made by a friend based on mizore wiki instructions.

$ cu -l /dev/dty10 -s 9600
Connected

SH IPL+g version 0.9, Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `w'.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
certain conditions; type `l' for details.

2002/09/09 Making.  2004/09/08 I-O DATA NSU Update.
266:133:33 on base clock 22.22MHz and SDRAM 4 burst. CF boot.

PCIC initialization done.
MASTER:48bit LBA mode non support
Disk drive detected: Hitachi ATA  6.0 Rev 1.0
LBA: 0003D200
DiskSize: 128188416Byte
PIO MODE1
Set Transfer Mode result: 51
> b
Set Transfer Mode result: 51
Initialize Device Parameters result: 50
IDLE result: 50

NetBSD MBR boot

NetBSD/landisk ffsv1 Primary Bootstrap

>> NetBSD/landisk Boot, Revision 1.0
>> (uwe@shravaka, Sat Aug 19 06:13:25 MSD 2006)
Press return to boot now, any other key for boot menu
booting hd0a:netbsd - starting in 0
type "?" or "help" for help.
>


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[jcarnat]

>>
>>I got the serial cable this evening so I plugued it on the mainboard.
>>The thing is I get junk on the output (same as if I had run  `cat
>>/bin/ls` for example) ; that is unreadable caracters. I tried hitting
>>ENTER but it doesn't seem to act as if the console got CR/LF.
>>
>>Anyone knows what this mean ?
>>Is the serial cable not build correctly ?
>>Do I use the wrong settings (I use 9600 8-N-1) ?
>>
>
> Try different baud rates? 19.2 or 38.4 perhaps?
>

I have tried every parameters in minicom.
Sometime I get output, sometimes not ; but each time, it is junk output.
I also tried inverting the cable pin 2 and 3 (which are supposed to be
TX/RX) ; all I got was junk AND bip :)

[jcarnat]

Hello,

Serial cable is OK.
I tried an OpenBSD installation, which ran OK.
I have build a netbsd-4 release (from my i386 laptop).
So I'm ready to try NetBSD on it.

Now... the stupid question... how do I install it ?
Because neither my build nor the releng/HEAD seem to provide INSTALL
kernel... :-)

Is it to be done "by hand" - making partitions and untaring things ?
And then... how do I install the boot loader ?

TIA,
        Jo

On Mon, Mar 12 2007 - 22:34, Joel CARNAT wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 12 2007 - 21:02, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 18:59:08 +0100, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> >
> > > build.sh doesn't seem to recognize "landisk" as a '-a' argument.
> > > does it work on -netbsd-4 or should I use some other ARCH ?
> >
> > landisk is MACHINE (-m), not MACHINE_ARCH (-a).  Use
> >
> > build.sh -m landisk ...
> >
>
> it's building. thanks!
>

[Valeriy E. Ushakov]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 23:02:57 +0100, Joel CARNAT wrote:

> I have build a netbsd-4 release (from my i386 laptop).

BTW, releng now builds landisk netbsd-4.


> Now... the stupid question... how do I install it ?
> Because neither my build nor the releng/HEAD seem to provide INSTALL
> kernel... :-)

Can you tell sh-ipl+g to boot off something else except the internal
hdd?  I can't seem to get to the sh-ipl+g prompt on my usl-5p, it
"autotypes" 'b' and loads netbsd mbr boot off the disk (CF).


> Is it to be done "by hand" - making partitions and untaring things ?

That's what I did for my USL-5P.


> And then... how do I install the boot loader ?

fdisk(8) and installboot(8).  I have to check the man page every time
I need to use installboot, b/c I do it may be once in a few years
only.  IIRC, assuming TOOLDIR in path and disk connected as, say, sd7,
something like

    $ shle--netbsdelf-fdisk -c /path/to/.../usr/mdec/mbr sd7

to write mbr boot code.  Don't forget to mark the netbsd partition
active.  And to install bootloader:

    $ nbinstallboot -m landisk /dev/rsd7c \
        /path/to/.../usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1

I honestly don't remember. :)

This link might help: http://www.tokuda.net/diary.gns/200609b.html#1602


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[jcarnat]

On Fri, Mar 23 2007 - 01:45, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 23:02:57 +0100, Joel CARNAT wrote:
>
> > I have build a netbsd-4 release (from my i386 laptop).
>
> BTW, releng now builds landisk netbsd-4.
>

great!

>
> > Now... the stupid question... how do I install it ?
> > Because neither my build nor the releng/HEAD seem to provide INSTALL
> > kernel... :-)
>
> Can you tell sh-ipl+g to boot off something else except the internal
> hdd?  I can't seem to get to the sh-ipl+g prompt on my usl-5p, it
> "autotypes" 'b' and loads netbsd mbr boot off the disk (CF).
>

I couldn't make it do anything else than boot...
Even the advertised 'l' and 'w' don't work.

>
> This link might help: http://www.tokuda.net/diary.gns/200609b.html#1602
>

This was nearly perfect !
Unless I missed it, there is no "make your partition active" part.
Fortunately you told me, and NetBSD is running on that beast now :)

I put my notes here http://www.tumfatig.net/docs/00_tut/hardware/BSD%20-%20landisk.php
The NetBSD part is not yet finished but will, probably this week-end.

Thanks a lot for the help.
Regards,
        Jo